#GOOD NEWWWS!#
I hope everyone had a good Easter!! It’s weird because it doesn’t feel like I last posted all that long ago but it also feels like Easter was about 2 months ago now and I posted before that!
Not a whole lot happened over the Easter weekend-although I did make Jon an Easter egg hunt which was a good bit of silly fun! Other than that it was just the usual excessive chocolate eating really-speaking of which, check out the egg that Jon got me!!
Soon after Easter came the SITE RE-VAMP!! If you’ve visited before now, I’m sure you’ll have noticed the changes! I’m so so happy with how everything looks now-the layout is a little more sophisticated and user friendly I think! If you scroll down you will see that there is a keyword search bar in place and everything! The only thing that is now a little harder to locate perhaps, is the Penny Candy blog posts-just a reminder that there are in fact two blogs on the site. You are currently reading a post in the first and main ‘personal blog’ which is located on the homepage. There is also a fashion mini-blog on the site which you can read by clicking on ‘Penny Candy (Fashion Mini-blog)’ under categories on the right of the homepage and then clicking on the entry you wish to read. I have been working hard on the ‘Creative’ section of the site too of late and I am in the process of gathering plenty of material for you to enjoy. If you haven’t checked out what’s already there, give the ‘Creative’ tag a click right away!
The BEST news of late is that I HAVE BEEN OFFERED A JOB! I cannot tell you how happy I am about this, and not only is it a job-it’s one I really want! It’s with a really good company in an administrative role that has room for working up, gaining plenty of experience along the way. Not only that, but it’s local, full-time and permanent! Basically, everything I could have wanted! It feels almost too good to be true, I just hope I really enjoy it as well. I think I will just from the motivation of a role of my own, everything about it seems really positive so far anyway. I start next Tuesday so I really need to enjoy my last week off! It’s a little scary because after that it’s 20 days off a YEAR and full-time graft! I think it’ll give me a bit of a jolt but in a good way! Hello early mornings! lol
I got word of my success in getting the job on Friday on my way to London, which made it all even better! Jon and I travelled down there to see Wicked before Kerry Ellis leaves on the 11th. Disappointingly however, Kerry wasn’t there! We saw Ashleigh Gray, who was really wonderful and I was excited to see her after my friend Grace saw her and said she was great, but I felt really sad for Jon who was crushed not to see Kerry 
We stayed over on Friday night in a really nice hotel, The Victoria Park Plaza, right up the road from Wicked (I have some pics which I’ll put up!) and then on Saturday, New Year’s Resolution number 6 was fulfilled (I’m so impressed at how well I’m sticking to my goals this year!) as we went to the matinee of Les Miserables. We were right at the front which was a really cool experience (the orchestra box was literally touching my feet!) and despite getting the odd shower from M. Thenardier (nice!) it’s made me really want to front-row it up at Wicked next time! I was really impressed by the girl playing Eponine in particular, as well as the guy playing Valjean. He had me in tears twice and Bring Him Home in my head the entire way home on Saturday evening-much to Jon’s despair!
Annnnd that’s where I’m upto pretty much-plans for this week include paying Pitman a visit to get everything wrapped up, shopping for some new work clothes (I have NO officewear…and also no money so don’t know how that one is going to pan out…) and then on Saturday I have my Sing Live Big Band audition!!! Aghhh…really hoping I can get a lesson in before that just to be prepared for the song-we’ll see!
By the way, I’m aware that I wrote that whole post about a new feel for the site content which hasn’t really come about yet…I still intend to vary the posts a bit and mix it up but as I’ve been paying more attention to form over content lately, it’s been overlooked a bit! Haven’t forgotten 
Sarah x
